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THE article “Quarry battle resumes” (GCB, 15/6) made our blood pressure increase.
How dare Boral’s state general manager Simon Jeffrey say this project is important for the Gold Coast. Ask people who chose to build their homes and live in Tallebudgera Valley.
The Gold Coast City Council voted unanimously and the local community agree this quarry, the second largest on the planet, will be an environmental disaster.
The Planning Environment Court agreed with the council and the local community dismissing Boral’s environmental credentials.
The decision to build this quarry was imposed on Gold Coasters by a previous state government with no consultation with either the GCCC or the local community.
The proposed quarry will exist for 50 years, with trucks carrying gravels etc at two-minute intervals six days a week from 6am to 6pm, mostly to NSW – not of benefit for the Gold Coast!
If this quarry proceeds, the damage to flora and fauna will be irreparable. Let’s consider our future generations and provide native bush land for them.
Our advice to Boral is to accept the umpire’s decision (Environment Court), find a more suitable quarry site where existing housing estates and schools are not established and sell this pristine area of the valley to provide a natural wonderland for future generations. M& V JENSEN, GOLD COAST OMG, I have just been watching the news and saw that AFL footballers are getting a 20 per cent pay rise. The average senior footballer in the national competition will now get over $450,000 a year. Is any sportsperson worth this? I received a massive 2.5 per cent pay rise this year and it takes me more than three years to equal one year’s salary of a footballer, after working for 45 years.
Can the average worker accept that their favourite sportsperson earns about 10 times what they do? JOHN ANDERSON, GOLD COAST IS THIS our new national anthem? Australia we cannot rejoice
For we’re no longer free
We’re sold our wealth and sold our oil
Our home is a crime spree Our lands abound in welfare gifts To migrants from elsewhere In history’s page we are enraged Advance Australia, where? Beneath our radiant Southern Cross We’ll toil with hearts and hands To make this government of ours Stop bowing to demands
For those who’ve come across the seas
We’ve boundless plains to share But we expect some due respect To advance Australia Fair
In joyful strains then let us sing Advance Australia, where? LESTER & MARLENE, GOLD COAST TEN years ago the Howard government made many Northern Territory children safe by intervention. Now they want an apology for making them safe.
Anybody who has been to these settlements would agree the right thing was done. ROD WATSON, MAIN BEACH